GOP congressman: People with pre-existing conditions lead “bad” lives

Republican Congressman Mo Brooks, who is a member of the US House Freedom Caucus, responsible for creating the new TrumpCare plan to repeal Obamacare, said today that people who have pre-existing conditions lead bad lives and are therefore to blame for their conditions.

Which is news to my asthma and my retinal detachment, and my mom’s and dad’s cancer.

Here’s Brook’s unbelievable statement to CNN this afternoon:

What’s important to realizes is that people like Brooks created TrumpCare. The entire legislation was made to appease people like Brooks in the GOP “Freedom Caucus.” People who think you are to blame for your asthma, for your mom’s cancer, for your dad’s diabetes, and for your child’s leukemia.

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19 Responses to “GOP congressman: People with pre-existing conditions lead “bad” lives”

“I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.” -Clarence Darrow
I LOOK FORWARD WITH EAGER ANTICIPATION TO READING YOUR NAME ON THAT NOTICE…ALONG WITH THE REST OF YOUR HOMELAND TERRORISTS IN THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS.
NOVEMBER 6TH, 2018 IS COMING……….BRACE YOURSELVES!!!

So, let me get this straight. People with pre-existing medical conditions who are born to lower of middle income families are the new “welfare queens”. Do I have that about right? That is THE sickest thing I have ever heard. Of course, it is coming out of the mouth of the ‘modern’ and ‘Christian’ GOP.

How healthy would Brooks have been if he were born in Pompeii before 79 AD? What would he look like if he were a seaman from time immemorial till about the 18th century when scurvy was eradicated. Was working at Chernobyl? During the Black Death? Got Minamata disease? Smallpox? Living in Nagasaki during WW II?
We need to work to make sure that this is his last term an an elected anything.

What are these hypocrites doing to help reduce chronic illness? Helping make food safer and more nutritious….NO! Making school lunch programs healthier…JUST THE OPPOSITE. These asshats have no clear overall picture. If you want to stop chronic illness you have to REGULATE the things that CAUSE IT. Restrict the levels of salt, sugar and fats in processed foods. They don’t care about any of this. They want to eliminate all regulations that help consumers.

I wasn’t the one who ran the stop sign, but I’m the quadriplegic. My wife did not implant the lump that necessitated chemotherapy. Brooks was probably congenitally stupid. These things are not life choices.

“It’s unbelievably heartless.” It’s also stupid. Yes, some people may contribute to their own illnesses. Obesity may increase the risk of diabetes. But not everyone does. A baby born with a congenital heart defect has done nothing on it’s own to cause itself to be sick. Also, Living a healthy life doesn’t mean you will be healthy. Accidents and bad genetics can happen to any of us. Also note, that one thing that is working against all of us is time. Even the healthiest get older. As we get older, the vast majority of us will become ill, often developing more and new medical problems as we age. No matter how healthy we’ve lived. Remember that, Mo Ron Brooks.

BTW, Mo Ron refused to even vote for the Republican health care legislation. He said, essentially, that it was the worst piece of legislation he’s seen. That makes it even worse than Obamacare! A Republican who thinks his own party’s health care plan is more horrible than the hated Democratic Obamcare. Will wonders never cease?